Silver Oak and Jacarandas

03-21-03

11x15 Oil paint on
linen panel

The orange and yellow-orange flowers of the Silver Oak are a complement color to the cobalt sky. I like to put complements from my color wheel side by side when I see them happen... and two major sets of complements is hard to pass up. Purple jacarandas and yellow-green sunlit grass is a given. Expect perfection, it happens all the time!

Day 1, it's very windy but a beautiful day Upcountry Maui. Today's medium is alkyd oil medium and oil paints. Jean Giordano is painting with me.

We found a place in the shade with a little wind protection and by 10:30 we were painting, well Jean was painting, I was drawing till 12:00. We finished for the day at 2:45. The other tree that is in full bloom is the Silver Oak (or Black Oak.)

Don

Jean

Day 2, March 22, 2003.

I went back to my old favorite mixed oil medium,it's easier to work with.A 2 ounce bottle of medium is made of;5 drops off the knife of cobalt drier, equals about 2%,1 part stand oil,3/4 part sun thickened linseed oil,1/4 part raw cold pressed linseed oil,1/8 part turpentine,1/8 part bees wax desolved in warm turpentine.

Day 3,

Day 4,

Drawing on the dry paint with white
chalk to make the road lines and shadows.